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leg markings and facial markings
gaits
Digestion
digestion 2
Nutrients
100
white on pastern
What is pastern
100
four beat gait
What is walk
100
The term for the stomach.
What is monogastric?
100
The function of the small colon.
What is water absorption?
100
10 to 12 gallons per day.
What is the average water consumption of the horse?
200
white along coronet/ coronary band
What is coronet
200
two beat diagonal gait
What is trot/jog
200
The important function of teeth.
What is to grind food?
200
true or false. horses are herbivores
What is true
200
Protein
What is amino acids, often overfed?
300
White extending to the hock or carpus.
What is a stocking?
300
fast, four beat gait
What is gallup/ run
300
Approximately 2 gallons.
What is the capacity of the equine stomach?
300
Because we are continous grazers.
What is the reason horses don't have a gall bladder?
300
Respiratory disease.
What is a consequence of feeding inadequate forage?
400
white covering fetlock
What is sock
400
three beat gait
What is canter/ lope
400
Glandular portion.
What is the acid secreting portion of the equine stomach?
400
Lubrication of a feed bolus.
What is the function of saliva in the horse?
400
Volatile fatty acids.
What are the products of plant fermentation in the hindgut?
500
white between eyes with thin white line down nose and then white between nostrils
What is star, strip, snip
500
difference between lateral gait and diagonal gait
What is lateral gait means on the same side and diagonal gait means opposite feet
500
Cecum and large colon.
What is the hindgut where fermentation of plant material occurs?
500
Choke
What is the term for a bolus of feed stuck in the esophagus of the horse?
500
Encysted larvae.
What is how intestinal parasites can cause diarrhea?